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Saturday, 16 February 2013

The London Anti Slam Champion

In 2010 I won the Berlin Anti-Slam which is a Slam where the worst poet wins. Inspired by US poet 'Jamie Dewolf', Paula Varjack started the Anti-Slam in Berlin in 2009. The way to win is not to be shit, but to be good at being shit, it's quite a challenge. When the Anti-Slam was brought to London in 2011, Adam Kammerling took the title with his 'Love, Sex' masterpiece of shit poetry... Last night Dan Simpson and Paula Varjack crowned a new Anti-Slam champion - Amy McAlester.

Raymond Antrobus Bio

Raymond Antrobus is a poet and former lead educator on the Spoken Word Education MA Programme at Goldsmiths University. Currently he is a one of the London Laureates. Born and bred in Hackney, he is also co-curator of popular London poetry events Chill Pill (Soho Theatre and The Albany) and Keats House Poets Forum. Raymond’s work has appeared on BBC Radio 4, The Big Issue, The Guardian and at TedxEastEnd. As well as respected literary journals such as The Rialto, Magma, Oxford University Diaspora's Programme and Alaska University Press. Sky Arts and Ideas Tap listed Raymond in the top 20 promising young artists in the UK. His second collection - Shapes & Disfigurements Of Raymond Antrobus - is published by Burning Eye Books.
“His monologues are stunning studies of voice and substance, and his lyric poems are graceful and finely crafted” - Kwame Dawes
“Raymond uses nostalgia for a place and a time, but resists sentimentality completely. He makes the reader/listener experience the moment with all the senses and very skilfully sets that up against a harsher reality” – Imtiaz Dharker